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Going Up in Smoke 

. I looked up Mark Twain, who occasionally visited Washington and who was mentioned in The Post more than 400 times before his death at age 75 on April 21, 1910. He died of angina pectoris. . . .

The Post noted that Twain had been an inveterate smoker his whole life but quoted his doctor as saying that he could not prove that "overindulgence in tobacco" caused his death. "Some constitutions seem immune from the effect of tobacco; this was one of them," Dr. Robert Halsey observed. The good doctor had insisted, though, that the irascible old writer cut back a bit -- from his daily allowance of 20 cigars and countless pipes to only four cigars.

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